Our Cuba tour

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Our Cuba tour

• February 2002
• Im a member of the symphonic orchestra
• Academy Strings (U of A)
• Last year we decided to organize a Cuba trip,
  for
• Performance, in concerts and workshops
• Cultural exchange, to learn about Cuban way of
  life
• Personal enrichment

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Tour Organization

• We had to raise 57 000 in funds for a 10-day
  tour with a group of 35 people
• Finally, February 17, 2002, we were on a plane

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Cuba
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Varadero

• Our first stop
• First thought
• What beautiful beaches!
• Second thought
• What are those blue things?
• (theyre jellyfish one of
• us got stung!
• The remedy vinegar)

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Cienfuegos

• This old theatre where we had our fist Cuban
  concert, the Teatro Tomàs Terry, is more than 100
  years old

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Cienfuegos

• Cienfuegos means a hundred fires
• Its on the Caribbean, so even at night the
  water is warm
• Our first night there I found a small lizard in
  my room!

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Havana

• We got to visit old Havana (la Habana Vieje), a
  point of interest for tourists
• One night we couldnt go to a jazz club on the
  Malecón, a seaside road, because it got flooded
  by the sea!

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Havana

• We had the privilege of playing with the
  university orchestra Musica Eterna under the
  direction of Guido Gavilàn, composer and
  conductor
• Despite a lack of everything but the basics,
  these young people are very dedicated,
  world-class musicians

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Old Havana

• The Basilica de San Francisco de Asis, where we
  had our last concert of the tour
• It was taped by a few local stations and
  broadcasted on TV
• Fidel Castro was invited, but he never showed

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Here we all are (can you see me?)
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Here I am!
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Back to Canada

• February 23rd we returned to Canada with many
  lovely memories of our trip to Cuba

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What I learned in Cuba

• Were lucky in Canada in Cuba, the economy is
  terrible they have nothing and are treated like
  second-class citizens in their own country while
  the tourists are kings

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What I learned in Cuba

• The culture is very rich music and musicians
  are everywhere, an integral part of Cuban life
• With music comes dance even us little Canadians
  without rhythm were able to learn the salsa

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What I learned in Cuba
The influential men in Cuba

• Che Guevara, revolutionnary

• Ernest Hemingway, American writer

• José Martí, national hero

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What I learned in Cuba

• The industries
• tobacco famous Cuban cigars
• Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta, Cohiba
• rum Havana Club
• mojitos (rum, mint, sugar and soda water)
• cuba libre (rum and Coke)

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A short video clip of our tour aired on CBC
follow the link to watch it

• video clip La Frontera

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The end

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